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Of which it is said (I do not pretend to grasp more than a pitiful sliver of this): “Pepe has guided humanity since time immemorial. This is Heqet, the frog-headed Ancient Egyptian goddess, symbol of life and protector on the journey to the afterlife. She guided the ancient Egyptians who transcended normie-ism to a land of poorly drawn dick-girls and the dankest of memes. A little known fact is that while normies evolved from the famously social monkeys, those destined to browse dank memes alone in dimly-lit rooms evolved from another species who also prefers dark moist habitats, namely the frog.”

The name ‘Kek’ appears to have crossed into Cyberspace by odd coincidence (and not — originally — as a name at all). Orcish, Korean, and Turkish languages were all supposedly involved. ‘Kek’ was an encryption of ‘LOL’ within certain World of Warcraft communication channels. The Turkish ‘Topkek‘ (a cupcake brand) was a secondary coincidence. No one seems to have been invoking the chaos deities of Ancient Khem at that point.

One more coincidence: Outbreak of the ‘cuck‘ meme. (Kek is Kuk.) It’s a definite ‘barbarous name of evocation‘ in retrospect, but mostly still connected around the back. Kek, Kuk, cake, cuck, might sound like consistent croaking, but tidy cultural cladistics are difficult to identify. (A sense of ethno-religious crisis on the Alt-Right is one indispensable contextual element.)

Kuk (also spelled as Kek and Keku) is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness in ancient Egyptian religion. In the Ogdoadcosmogony, his name meant darkness. As a concept, Kuk was viewed as androgynous, his female form being known as Kauket (also spelled as Keket), which is simply the female form of the word Kuk. […] Like all four dualistic concepts in the Ogdoad, Kuk’s male form was depicted as a frog, or as a frog-headed man, and the female form as a snake, or a snake-headed woman. As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity and the unknown, and thus chaos. Also, Kuk was seen as that which occurred before light, thus was known as the bringer-in of light. The other members of the Ogdoad are Nu and Naunet, Amun and Amaunet, Huh and Hauhet.

I’m heavily reliant on the commentariat here to sort all this out.

The proximal trigger:

Kek is literally the name of the God of Darkness/obscurity. He is depicted as a frog. Truly these are strange times. pic.twitter.com/NS0aM99QKU

“Pepe” is a character from the comic Boy’s Club by cartoonist Matt Furie.
A panel from this comic showing him saying “Feels good man” became a popular “reaction” image attachment. Posters “exploited” and redrew the original image. Not a matter of any great obscurity.

“Kek” became popular as a substitute for “lol” as you note.

Someone made the connection to Egyptian mythology, possibly via a GIS, who knows.

What’s to sort out? Google seems to know where pepe came from. Only other thing you missed is how koreans would laugh on Starcraft 1 b.net channels, where they used ‘kekeke’ instead of ‘hahaha’ (Presumably because they do that everywhere.) The WoW team got the idea from that.

Simply by virtue of having a staggeringly large userbase, WoW has always been an interesting virtual world to monitor. The “Corrupted Blood” plague was fascinating — to such an extent that it spurred a half-dozen serious epidemiology papers in journals like The Lancet and Epidemiology.

>””The city had streets literally white with the bones of the dead,” the player said. Screenshots show game characters walking through eerily deserted streets strewn with skeletons.”

…If any virtual world were going to give birth to an ancient dark God, that would probably be the one.

Note also the relation between kek, κακός/κακόν, cocaine, kookiness, and the KKK. Also, note how the kek/Pepe pairing mirrors the Coke/Pepsi pairing. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but it is not a coincidence because nothing is ever a coincidence.

Memes are to the surface of the ocean as the ocean itself is to archetypes. The name might be a coincidence, but the animal symbolism and personality are not.

In other news, Jung is the most underrated thinker of the 20th century and the first person to begin intimating what evolutionary psychology really means. The Dawkinsian notion of ‘memes’ is a shallow echo of Jungian thought.

Also worth noting is that much of this “kek-posting” arrived around the time of the destruction of the Temple of Baal by ISIS in Palmyra. Anons pointed out that Baal is represented like this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bael.jpg

A cat, frog, and… Ron Paul? The three gods of The Happening with the legs of a spider. All the better to spin their…. WEB